Thread: Its the Simple "Things" in life!

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I have been working on and off of Mr. Customers 60 something international pick up truck for a few years now. Ive bagged the front end and installed a mustang ll suspension, Installed a SBC with a 700r4. So I get a call out of the blue. He wants me to check out a VW Thing. So I go over to check the thing out thinking he needs some work done on it. I've never really looked these little guys over very closely only because I just thought they were ugly little nothing cars! come to find out he wants to do some barter work for his thing! My first thought is you got to be kidding me. So I go into the garage and he starts pulling all kinds of things off of the car that have been stacked , piled, and stored up on it for years. With my flash light in hand I peek at the engine and its sparkling clean? Trans axle was the same? I noticed new trailing arms on it as well as a body lift. The front end has been lifted with an adjuster welded on the front beams. This little guys is pretty cool! Come to find out he has been building it for years but just ran out of gas on it. He has it sanded down to the point where it needs some color put on it, rubber door seals installed, fenders put on and its ready to go. Everything is fresh and new! He is just over the whole THING? So now I'm anxiously waiting to get after his truck again in a few weeks, soon after that I will take position of the Thing. I cant remember being this excited about a car for a long long time? Go figure. LOL Ugly little thing... cant wait. Oh and it comes with a mountain of spare parts. It should be a blast! anyone here ever had one?